Recenty i bought a laptop called acer swift go and i have plan to install linux on that but i find many issues mainly secureboot I cant boot fedora or ubuntu with secure boot turned on i hope this community have many users who have a deep knowledge about if they could help. [Gha02mAbsAAAvRO] Thi…

IIRC it was [usb device]/efi/boot/bootx64.efi

Also, do you have Nvidia drivers? Secure Boot tends to make some features not work very well out of box (i.e. Hibernate)

Why? That’s not how it’s supposed to work.

It is a ryzen 7 ultra book does not have any dedicated gpu.

Oh my bad. That hasn’t been a concern for some distributions recently. To correct myself, it really depends on a bunch of other factors that could make secure boot not work

No not true i have other device where i can boot live with a fedora media without turning off secure boot i can easily use fedora on that…

I have used fedora media writer from fedora first make a ubuntu bootable Next with Rufus in windows fedora workstation bootable with iso and next in dd more both in gpt and mbr mode but does not work show me that error… I have asked acer also X.com Also asked in fedora [image] I can'…

I am thinking if ventoy could solve the issue…which is the last option left after that i had to install fedora without secure boot. If you need any details you can ask me btw.

Btw at first i really want to thank you guys for helping me here. I really appreciate that. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=271043 [image] [Fixed] "No Bootable Device" Error After Installing Ubuntu Did you install Linux afresh or perhaps dual booted it? And now your system …

What they said in the Fedora forum is also what I am thinking. This sounds like the signing keys in bios are not what are expected by the OS so the system will not load the kernel with secure boot. You might be able to use that “Select an UEFI file as trusted for executing” option in your BIOS t…

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jonah (Jonah Aragon) January 16, 2025, 5:33pm 8

@brivacy what did you use to create the installer, the official Fedora Media Creation Tool, or some third-party disk writing software?

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